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Found myself turning into a misanthropic ball of hate this weekend and was pretty disgusted with myself when I reflected on it last night / this morning. Hanging around in a Casino too much in that environment can do weird things to you and alcohol doesn't help I guess.
Starting Friday I get in a fantastic game with multiple recs sitting on multi K 400+bb stacks. Regular UTG straddle. Some tech money waiting for the Friday 10/25. I don't play 2 orbits before a couple of nit regs have chased off the biggest whale in the game talking shit to him for "chasing" or something absolutely retarded. People bounce and the game quickly goes to shit. later I stack some indian guy 150bb deep after he raises a $3 limp to 37, proceeds to call my 3bet to 100, and then jams over my flop bet with 88 on 235r vs my KK. Seems like the first time in months I wasn't 2 outered in this spot. He needles me about the hand for the next couple hours despite the fact I won and he played bad. It doesn't bother me until I play a hand vs someone else. I open UTG one or two calls some dude makes a huge 3bet I call (usually folding here tbh but I know he is very likely to have 1010/JJ/QQ/AK some worse and even a few random 95o hands have shown and not aa/kk with this size. plus kinda deep, hes bad, down to gamble a little). Flop comes 947hh or something I check he checks. Out of everyone at the table me and this guy have probably been playing the most reasonably so far; nothing too out of line. Turn is 8x, he checks I bet near 2/3rds. River is the 5h, he checks I jam 285 effective into about 320 or something. He tanks for a while and mutters to himself "3bet pot" repeatedly before flicking in a chip for the call while saying any pair good (I call maybe 1-3 KQs combos pre, no KJ/AJ/QJ/AQo, might call 1-2 AQs look at my smallhand on watch, start calling some SCs again at 89s/910s/10js and then mostly just all pairs 88-AA. I'm not calling his 3bet nearly as light as he thinks or most people in this game. Of course I Get herod by the exact part of his range I'm trying to fold out. AKo > KQs on 45789hhh calling off my 100 bb river bet. Nh sir didn't think you had it in you. One of the lighter calls I've been hit with here and wouldn't have been all that tilting in and of itself but when the Indian dude instantly erupts in laughter and glee and talking shit reveling in my loss I was admittedly pretty annoyed. Left that table to play 2-3-5 then realized I was prob too tilted and 5-6 beers/drinks deep so called it a night.
Next day my friend and I go again. Again we tip the floor 25 to skip the waitlist and get seated. Still takes a while so I'm 3 beers in before I even start playing. I am in another ridiculously soft game with some dudes that literally have never played poker. I play a fun hand where I raise A7s get 5 calls or whatever; flop comes A75cc. Rec to my right donks 20 into 65-80 or whatever and I make it 100. Turn is a brick 5 and he donks AI for 140 and I pay off his K5o. I make a big "isolation" raise with kq pre and flop kq3 rainbow. Fishreg who limp/called donks into me I call. Turn ace obv and the fishreg bets $5 more than he did on the flop. I call. brick river he chops out a big bet and I fold he shows J10o. standard matrix reg play. overlimp J10o UTG+1 then call an 8-9 bb raise; proceed to win min when hitting gin postflop. So basically after a few hours I'm not even down but I am on all kinds of entitlement tilt, lifetilt, most kinds of tilt there are. For no real reason though just running kind of bad. Online the shit couldn't be more standard but playing one table in a game like this it feels much different. I am seeing the worst plays everyhand, old man playing nitty all night just calls a 85bb river bet into a completely dry sidepot on 1077KJsss with AA in a spot he is literally NEVER good to this Reg I really don't like. I defend bb vs this same reg with 85 a few hands later, bet call 553cc. 4c turn he pots and I just fold while he shows KJcc. So yea bunch of dumb hands like that where the only money I was making was through a few bluffs that somehow got through. My boy racks up another 200bb win and I walk out up 13 bones and just feel retarded for this result after playing in one of the softest games of my life, watching the worst regs who couldn't beat 25nl on Bovada come up fat, and prob still subconsciously bitter about getting soulcrushed the night before.
Then last night we return and are #s 2/3 on the waitlist but my boy tips them 25 for us anyways. He is a real nice cool guy who tips generously and I would do well to try and emulate his behavior in general a little more. Either way it is not a bad idea to take care of the floor here since they will plug you with table changes over other people and will allow you to skip 50 person waitlists if you pay them on a Friday/sat night. I brought my laptop though cause I was playing in some dumb online tourney still from earlier in the day and needed to play it out so I'm streaming internet from a phone in the car and on the way in. I go to switch over to the casino internet after I get in there and it doesn't work so I switch back over to the phone. I come back online and see I have KK in ep after being briefly lagged out. however action has already passed me and there is a huge 3 way all in that I would have won had I played the hand. So I bust the tourney shortly after and I ask to get seated and proceed to get passed over by table changes for the next 30 mins. realistically the guy is just doing what he has to do before seating me but after a godseat opens up in the exact spot at the exact table I wanted and I'm standing right there ready to sit down, but then some grimy mexican dude at my buddies table just snap jumps on it after he sees my interest and gets priority. I take my beer to walk outside and smoke a cigarette (don't smoke but started to again this weekend while drinking/tilting/pokerplaying) but no beers outside so I set it down. When I come back in my beer is gone. Sick. I walk back outside and smoke again when some car comes speeding through the parking lot; I pretty much walk in his path looking to make him stop / slow and when he doesn't I flick my cigarette at his window just trying to start shit. I say fuck this place and start walking to the cardroom across the street when my boy calls me out for being a tool and yea he is completely right so we just head home.
TLDR
Need to chill the fk out
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Bovada lags out on me tonight while I am still in 6 tournaments and very deep / top 10 in one of them. All of a sudden I can't click on anything and start blinding out. I restart the program; it is slow as fuck and no luck. I restart the computer and load up bovada; still slow as fuck but at least I can click on icons and watch the tables slowly load from 1%-99% one at a time. 10 minutes later and 20 mins in total and I have my tournaments back up. I have missed entire levels in all of them and have been significantly blinded down. sick. not mad though |
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K40Cheddar United States. Feb 16 2016 08:02. Posts 2202 | | |
Sounds like you should stop drinking while your playing unless you don't really give a fuck. Doesn't seem like you are going in with a professional attitude. You should be smart enough to know what you are signing up for playing this sick game. But hey, everyone's gotta vent sometime. |
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ClouD87 Italy. Feb 16 2016 18:26. Posts 524 | | |
Whenever something sick or bad or unlucky happens to me rather than getting mad as usual I found more useful and entertaining to focus more on the fun side of it.
Like the indian fish laughing his ass off when you lose the hand is kinda hilarious if you think about it. And it also makes a great short story to tell friends. Who cares if you lose a couple pots you are playing poker for a living, it's some sick gangster shit compared to what most people do :D |
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NewbSaibot United States. Feb 16 2016 19:30. Posts 4943 | | |
I had one guy taunt me for a hand I lost that he wasnt even involved in. It made me feel great that he is glad I lost, because it shows how envious and mad he is of me, especially after I stacked him 3 times earlier that night (and no coolers/suckouts, just him doing retarded shit like donkbetting allin with QJ on a Q high board and being shocked he was beat) |
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4TM United States. Feb 16 2016 23:35. Posts 712 | | |
| | On February 16 2016 17:26 ClouD87 wrote:
Whenever something sick or bad or unlucky happens to me rather than getting mad as usual I found more useful and entertaining to focus more on the fun side of it.
Like the indian fish laughing his ass off when you lose the hand is kinda hilarious if you think about it. And it also makes a great short story to tell friends. Who cares if you lose a couple pots you are playing poker for a living, it's some sick gangster shit compared to what most people do :D |
This. Also helps me to remember those guys are always huge life time losers in poker. They never get the last laugh. |
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Stim_Abuser United States. Feb 16 2016 23:59. Posts 7499 | | |
Get used to people like that Indian guy, they are very common in live poker.
If you get upset just remind yourself that you're a much better player than him and focus on playing well so you can win your money from him and get the last laugh.
But yea you got owned hard in that first hand, I might laugh too. |
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Stim_Abuser United States. Feb 17 2016 00:24. Posts 7499 | | |
And yea sounds like you need to live a healthier life. Drink less, exercise more to get rid of that stress, and eat better. |
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Actually these feelings only come up when I was already not fully in a calm state of mind. Basically, you were tilt prone before you even sat down. This is more overall life happiness really. You have to be at peace with yourself to play poker, especially live. |
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4TM United States. Feb 17 2016 02:28. Posts 712 | | |
| | On February 17 2016 01:01 Big_Rob_isback wrote:
Actually these feelings only come up when I was already not fully in a calm state of mind. Basically, you were tilt prone before you even sat down. This is more overall life happiness really. You have to be at peace with yourself to play poker, especially live. |
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fira United States. Feb 17 2016 03:28. Posts 6345 | | |
some of this does sound like "entitlement tilt" aka "i'm the best player so i should win, losing to worse players is unacceptable". even if u are the best player u can't think like this because it will just tilt you when u lose. i know the feeling though, esp of getting needled from a jerk who sux at the game.
there's this guy on full tilt, one of my 'nemeses'. he talks a lot, 100% of it trash. one day i just realized that everything he says is an attempt to tilt others. it doesn't matter if someone is right, legit, funny, etc, he'll always try to turn it around and try to make the other guy look dumb. it don't matta if someone just pwnd the shit out of him or if they just won the whole universe, i alrdy know what he's gonna say and it's something like "retard" "idiot" or other passive aggressive bs. no variation, no surprises. ppl like this... tbh i see right thru them now - what they say has zero value because it is not based on truth, instead simply a need to feel good about themselves by beating up others. this guy used to tilt me a lot because he made me doubt myself a little bit, i was like "hmm this guy is certainly a jerk but is what he's saying true?" nowadays im just like haha yeah he would say that! well that was a bit off topic maybe but t'is recent "tilt story" of mine ;p |
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fira United States. Feb 17 2016 03:41. Posts 6345 | | |
at the same time though, the reason why i like playing live poker is because of ppl. ppl do interesting things, and there are a lot of really cool ppl at the live poker tables from all places and u get to observe them interact with each other, much unlike online where most everyone looks/acts like a bot. i think if u can enjoy the scenery and not get too involved in personal battles, even losing sessions in live can be a lot of fun. |
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Thanks guys good advice and comments all around. Pretty insightful |
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Ryan Neilly United States. Feb 17 2016 09:17. Posts 1631 | | |
no mire than 1 drink playing live plz  stay clear minded, drink after session, don't mix business and pleasure too much at the table, just a lil bit is ok sometimes |
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lebowski Greece. Feb 19 2016 12:32. Posts 9205 | | |
nice story telling, felt like a noir film
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KeyleK_uk United Kingdom. Mar 01 2016 00:15. Posts 1687 | | |
| | On February 17 2016 08:17 Ryan Neilly wrote:
no mire than 1 drink playing live plz stay clear minded, drink after session, don't mix business and pleasure too much at the table, just a lil bit is ok sometimes |
This, you have to have FUN at a live table, the boring nitty live regs are the nut low for live poker..... BUT you can have fun without getting drunk AND still play perfect poker.
Quoting Neilly and agreeing, oh life <3 |
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